Joni KarjalainenUniversity of Turku | UTU · Finland Futures Research Centre
Joni Karjalainen
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Introduction
Co-author of "Electrification in Peer-to-Peer Society - a New Narrative for Sustainable Futures", applying foresight methods and tools to analyse the energy transition. Research interests: anticipatory governance, innovation ecosystems, off-grid solar photovoltaics, pioneer analysis, science-communication, startups. Part of research projects: Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments, Neo-Carbon Energy, Kenya and Tanzania Beyond 2015, and Sustainable Energy for All.
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April 2013 - present
September 2010 - December 2013
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Publications (30)
Our complex world is changing at such a pace that we are struggling to address many of the global challenges ahead of us. As one of its symptoms, hybridisation means that fields, functions, characteristics and roles are increasingly combined and fused. This paper is an opening to the study of hybridisation, as an overlooked topic in the field of fu...
Purpose
Crises are major events or periods faced by individuals, groups and society. This paper aims to explore the value of facilitating (un)learning in and from crises. Educators have a key role in building futures literacy (FL) for dealing with uncertainties, understanding emergence and responding to rapid, complex change. Integrating crisis lea...
Discussing renewable energy technologies in the context of cultural transformation highlights the role of culture as a game changer. Too often only economic, technological and political dimensions are taken to be key drivers of change. This research focuses on the different modes and implications of peer-to-peer activities, as a means of organizing...
Exploring anticipated transformative changes must include a critical and holistic view. In the context of large-scale energy transitions, analytical approaches are often narrowly constrained around techno-economic, political and environmental aspects as drivers of change. Discussing renewable energy technologies in the context of an increasingly om...
Pioneers drive futures. The book chapter presents pioneer analysis as a useful approach for the analysis of transformations in the context of futures research and anticipation. The chapter begins with an introduction on how pioneers have typically been conceptualised in academic literature. We claim pioneering actions as analogous to weak signals o...
This working paper focuses on radical startups of solar photovoltaics (PV) in Kenya and Tanzania. The research was conducted in the Neo-Carbon Energy project (2014-2017) and finalized in the science-communication project Great Electrification in Peer-to-Peer Society (2018), conducted at the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) in the University o...
This is a book review of Patterns of the Future: Understanding the Next Wave of Global Change by Markku Wilenius (London, UK: World Scientific, 239 p, 2017). The book is aimed at business leaders, decision‐makers, and the general public who are interested in better understanding the forces that are shaping the future. In the review, we discuss espe...
The point of discussing renewable energy technologies in the context of cultural transformation is to highlight culture as a game changer and catalyst for change. Too often only economic, technological and political dimensions are taken as key drivers for change. This working paper presents the results of the workshop session “New great electrifica...
Climate change is causing major pressures for energy systems to change, which is making low-carbon alternatives based on renewable energy sources increasingly attractive. This article used a hybrid methodology to identify and learn from the pioneers of renewable energy around the world. First, weak signals and emerging issues were identified to cra...
Renewables-based Neo-Carbon Vision of the world in 2050 portrays an electrified, resilient and secure society with empowered, prosumeristic citizens who upload their surplus energy into smart grids as well as download energy when needed. Four scenarios assume a social perspective to open up very different avenues as transformative manifestations of...
The relationship between urban governance and citizens has to be revisited as citizens and their peer-to-peer networks emerge as central actors in creating the city space. Renewable energy is a key driver, since it enables citizens to produce their own energy. This transition creates pressure for the rigid urban planning system to reinvent itself....
Neo-Carbon Energy is the largest renewable energy research in the Finnish history. We are creating a completely new energy system where the produced energy is emission-free,
cost-effective and independent. We are solving renewable energy’s flexible use, storage and distribution. This will revolutionise the entire energy field. The project is carrie...
We are living in a world of increasing interconnectedness through digitalisation and globalisation, exacerbating environmental conditions, severe economic challenges, uneven distribution of wealth, and geopolitical crises. The world is a complex system and the rapid change among its sub-systems builds up pressure for any efforts to anticipate chang...
Foresight is a pragmatic futures studies approach as structured debate about future-related topics. Deliberative foresight addresses stakeholders affected by specific futures. This paper goes beyond a low-carbon strategy to present the potential of futures based on renewable energy. In the neo-carbon energy system, high shares of solar, wind, and o...
This article presents a hypothesis that futures knowledge – about the futures of technology, economy, culture and society – can be obtained by recognising and analysing pioneers. The hypothesis was tested by using a hybrid method that combined the identification of weak signals, scenario technique and pioneer analysis. The socio-cultural scenarios...
Vertaisverkot nousevat tulevaisuudessa keskeisiksi kaupunkitilaan vaikuttaviksi toimijoiksi. Tämän seurauksena kaupunginhallinnon, kaupunkisuunnittelun ja kaupunkilaisten välinen suhde muuttuu ja vaatii uusia lähestymistapoja. Muutos luo paineita perinteisille kaupunkisuunnittelun ja kaupunginhallinnon malleille. Ne eivät voi enää itsenäisesti määr...
Energy is not solely a techno-economic question, but has implications for the whole of society – its culture,
values, lifestyles, and power structures. Changes in energy systems affect societies over decades, and long-term social and cultural processes in turn affect energy systems. Thus, energy systems should be studied from sociocultural and futu...
This report presents the results of the “Neo-Carbon Energy World – What Opportunities for Chile?”, a futures clinique organised at the Chilean Intellectual Property Institute INAPI in Santiago de Chile 24th October 2016, jointly by Finland Futures Research Centre of the University of Turku and Consejo Chileno Prospectiva y Estrategia (CChPE). Chile...
This report presents the results of an International Symposium "Clean Disruption for Abundant Futures", which was organised as a futures clinique of the Neo-Carbon Energy project and Summer School of the Finland Futures Academy, as well as Helsinki Node’s Millennium Forum at Museum of Contemporary Arts Kiasma, Helsinki, June 7–8, 2016.
The two-day...
This report is a country study of Argentina of the foresight part of Neo-Carbon Energy project. In this research project, a new renewables-based energy production, storage
system and products are being developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and University of Turku –
Finland Futures Researc...
The article discusses possible futures of self-organising peer-to-peer work through four transformative scenarios constructed in the Neo-Carbon Energy research project. These futures images probe the futures of work from the perspective of peer-to-peer organisations and distributed renewable energy production. The scenarios lay a systemic view on t...
This paper presents the results of an innovative pilot experiment on elaborating transformative energy scenarios by using a causal layered analysis (CLA) game. CLA is an integrative and communicative method, which divides issues into four layers: litany, systemic causes, worldviews, and metaphors. In the piloted CLA game, four existing scenario dra...
This report presents the results of ”Creating the Third Industrial Revolution”, a Futures Clinique organised in Ruoholahti, Helsinki May 6, 2015 at Sitra. Futures Clinique is a distinct futures workshop method. The futures clinique was conducted within a research project NEO-CARBON ENERGY and its futures research part “Neo-Carbon Enabling Neo-Growt...
On the road towards the post-2015 development framework, the “Development Futures in Kenya and Tanzania Beyond 2015” book presents views from Kenya and Tanzania to complement the post-2015 debate that thus far has taken place mostly at the international policy circles. The book is based on over fifty interviews in Kenya, Tanzania and Finland and te...
SCENARIOS IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE
In recognition of the climate change challenge, this report has studied how energy models and scenarios
have been deployed in energy policy in order to contextualise the assumptions that guide public policymaking
to build up the capacity of decision-makers, experts and citizens alike.
Fossil fuel-based energy...
Projects
Projects (6)
(RESCUE) is a multidisciplinary study funded by the Academy of Finland for 2020–2023. The research project aims to promote the dynamic resilience and crisis preparedness of societies by concretising the role of real estate in both anticipated and unanticipated crises, at local and global scales.
https://www.utu.fi/en/university/turku-school-of-economics/finland-futures-research-centre/research/rescue
